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Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle
Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle is a third-person story-driven survival horror game prequel to the critically acclaimed Daymare: 1998. Step into the shoes of agent Dalila Reyes, a former government spy now in the service of H.A.D.E.S. unit and prepare to face the true horror.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-14.
“Ratings to the Game: 9/10 is it worth playing? yes, if you like resident evil, is resident evil inspired. Pros: *Graphics are good *Good feel of horror *Secrets in-game *Easy Achievement Grind *Easy Controls *Well explain tutorial for newbies Cons: *Character can be quite…”
— a player, Steam review · 25 hrs played“I have a great time playing this old school game (2013 style). A bonus I recommend if you have an AMD card is to use Optiscaler, and force FSR 4; It will look fantastic.”
— a player, Steam review · 24 hrs played“I wasted my time running around 90% of the game in empty large areas, I wont waste more on this review, Complete waste of potentials.”
— a player, Steam review · 19 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 19:02 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle Major Update #2
Hello everyone, Major update #2 for Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle is now live, bringing a new difficulty mode and some other quality of life improvements. We received many requests for a New Game+ mode in
Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle Major Update #1
Hello everyone, Major update #1 for Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle is now live, bringing bug fixes, major combat balance tweaks and other improvements for the game. We heard your feedback loud and clear and
Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle 6 September Patch Notes
- Game Credits now correctly show distributors company names - Fixed missing ambient audio on 1st map
Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle 4 September Patch Notes
- Small improvements on facial and body animations during major cutscenes. - Fixed an issue with the main character having incorrect hair color under specific circumstances. - Fixed mispositioned prop
DAYMARE 1994: SANDCASTLE IS OUT NOW!!
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.
| Genres | Action |
| Player tags | Shooter · Horror · Third Person · Survival Horror · Female Protagonist · Action · Exploration · Adventure · Old School · Singleplayer · Combat · Story Rich (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 30 |
| Estimated owners | 0 – 20,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.daymarethegame.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: WINDOWS 7, 8, 8.1, 10 (64-BIT Required) Processor: Intel®Core i5-4460, 2.70GHz or AMD FX-6300 or better Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or AMD Radeon R7 260x with 2 GB Video RAM DirectX: Version 12 Storage: 23 GB available space